Tag: Aruán Ortiz
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Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2025

Albums of the Year
For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Aruán Ortiz – Créole Renaissance

Albums
On his latest solo album the acclaimed pianist Aruán Ortiz sometimes sounds like he is constructing a ballad still with lots of space between the keys. The bass notes of the left hand bear that kind of leaden, treading or ponderous quality which one hopes will have disappeared upon the completion of the composition, still harbouring traces of doubt...

Tracks of the Week 03.02.24

Tracks of the Week
The creative life of the composer Cergio Prudencio - a Guggenheim fellow and Platino Award winner for his score for the Bolivian drama Utama, an intergenerational meditation on life in the Altiplano amid drought and the fraying of old ways, and a vice minister for interculturality within the Bolivian ministry of cultures, decolonization and depatriachalization - remains inextricably linked...